I’ll give them an A for effort, including branching out:
from tires to agribusiness this month, and Valdosta North Rotary today, too.
That Community Ecomomic Developmeent Meeting is still on for tomorrow,
at
the Conference Center.
And they are talking about spec[ulative] building, such as they liked when they saw it in Douglas and Valdosta Mayor Gayle liked in Vidalia.
Here’s the agenda. Continue reading
Well, the agenda says the Invocation was “For the purpose of discussing real estate”; it doesn’t say what the Executive Session was for.
Maybe they’ve got a customer for one of those empty industrial parks
Brad Lofton talked them into building before he left the state.
Maybe they’re going to build some of those spec buildings they and Valdosta Mayor Gayle admire in Vidalia and Douglas.
Maybe they’re still negotiating with Continue reading
The head of GA EPD went to Florida to explain Valdosta.
Pictured is
Judson Turner, Director, Georgia Environmental Protection Division
telling the
Suwannee River Water Management District
what Valdosta is doing to stop
sewage from flowing down the Suwannee River from
Valdosta’s Withlacoochee Wastewater Treatment Plant.
Found
on OSFR. -jsq
PR by Abby Johnson, Office of Communications, Suwannee River Water Management District, RWMD gets Valdosta wastewater treatment plant update,
LIVE OAK, FL, August 13, 2014 — The Governing Board of the Suwannee River Water Management District (District) was given an overview and update at their August 12 meeting about the wastewater treatment plant in Valdosta, Ga., which affects the Withlacoochee and Suwannee rivers.
More than 90 area concerned residents and Continue reading
Neverending
Nelson Hill was completely withdrawn this time.
Opposition showed up against
Roger Budd Jr‘s rezoning of 4.28 acres from R-10 to C-G
on Francis Lake in Lake Park.
Plus recommendations for a county appointee to GLPC.
In Valdosta,
Turner Brooks was withdrawn although paperwork was in progress for
a different submission,
and
Riverview Development LLC
still wanted to
rezone 3.59 acres to Community Commercial
and to
rezone 7 parcels of 3.14 acres total to Multi-Family Residential
partly in the floodplain of the Withlacoochee River behind Music Funeral Home.
Here’s the agenda, and the videos are below. Continue reading
A flood plain rezoning next to the Withlacoochee river came back from 2011,
at the
28 July 2014 Planning Commission meeting,
which voted unanimously for, as did the Valdosta City Council later.
7. VA-2014-05 Riverview Development LLC
Video. This is parcel 0074 088 on North Valdosta Road behind Music Funeral Home, next to Langdale Park, on the other side of the Withlacoochee River from Foxborough.
City Planner Matt Martin said only a tiny part of the property was in the floodplain of the Withlacoochee River. Continue reading
Opposition started arising to Roger Budd’s request to rezone
to put another Family Dollar near Francis Lake in Lake Park,
at the
28 July 2014 Planning Commission meeting,
which voted 5 to 2 with one abstention to recommend a compromise solution.
6. REZ-2014-14 Roger Budd Jr
Video. County Planner Jason Davenport said he had received no indications of any opposition. And one GLPC member asked the developer’s presenter whether residents of Francis Lake had been notified.
Yet J.D. Carroll spoke against, Continue reading
Somebody got a jump on Georgia Power for Air Force base solar installation.
Wayne Crenshaw wrote for The Telegraph 23 July 2014, Air Force signs deal for solar array at Robins,
The Air Force has inked a deal with a company that plans to build a 50-acre solar array at Robins Air Force Base.
New Generation Power has signed Continue reading
All aboard for the second and last rail plan meeting in Valdosta tonight.
Maybe you see something missing in
the current passenger rail corridor
proposal pictured on the right.
Maybe you’d like to suggest some changes or additions.
Stuart Taylor wrote for the VDT today, Rail plan meeting scheduled,
Continue readingGeorgia Department of Transportation will host a 2014 Georgia state rail plan public meeting from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, April 17, in the Valdosta City Hall Annex, 300 N. Lee St.
Maybe the Lowndes County Commission should have read these quotes
before it approved that
unbudgeted no-bid not-discussed-in-the-retreat
second water treatment system purchase.
Update 17 October 2014: Fix date of editorial. -jsq
VDT editorial 12 April August 2014,
Why open government matters,
“The same prudence, which, in private life, would forbid our paying our money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public moneys.” — Thomas Jefferson.
Continue reading
Water, water, construction, subdivisions, and alcohol:
Nelson Hill and Roger Budd are back,
like at the 28 July 2014 Planning Commission.
The first board appointment from
the list of ones to fill this year
is for the
Valdosta-Lowndes County Construction Board of Adjustments and Appeals.
The Lowndes County Commission
already met yesterday morning for the Work Session, and they meet
tonight at 5:30 PM to vote in the Regular Session.
Here’s the agenda. Continue reading